Viking lander scale model, Tiny, but nice! Options

[Airbag]

I was at NEAF yesterday and happened to come across this tiny (about 1 inch across) but very detailed scale model of a Viking lander (complete with small "Martian soil base"), fact sheet and "collectors cards". The package also included a small dark green glass sphere (marble sized); purpose unknown. Maybe it *is* just a marble! This was just one in a series of miniatures of various spacecraft so maybe aimed at kids but this Viking lander was by far the best of the ones they had there and believe me I looked all over.




Also had the brands "Arclight" and "Kaiyodo" on the back of the box.

Unrelated, some booths were also selling tiny fragments of purported Moon rock and Mars rock (via meteorites) for $35-$50 a fleck. Seemed neat, but I didn't buy any as how would you ever know it was really what it claimed it was?

Airbag

PS NEAF was very good as usual!

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Just wanted to compare the scale of these mini models ( Viking & Voyager ) against the MER model every bought & discussed 4 years ago:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...t=0&start=0

There's also an UMSF.com pinback

[Airbag]

News flash! My "Viking" found life - or is it the other way around?!






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[vk3ukf]

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Well, here's the little models I raked up, after reading this.

Love the spiders.

There is an old 1920's Buck Rodgers spaceship.
The little Viking Lander, Lunar Prospector, Saturn V, Voyager, Sojourner Rover and Japanese version of the Me 163 rocket plane, came in little Kinder Surprise type things from Japan.

The little alien is a rubber stamp, it lights up red when you press it down on paper and it makes its mark.

The Thunderbirds have a tiny hidden button that activates a voice chip, each plays 3 random typical lines from a show.

Thunderbirds are go, etc.

The crystal cubes have in them, a MER, Soyuz, ISS and MIR.

The Iron at the back, I picked up in the hills to the south west of the Henbury meteorite craters, in the Northern Territory.

[tty]

The "Japanese version of the Me 163 rocket plane" is actually a Mitsubishi J8M1 Shusui, and while closely based on the Me 163B was actually to a large extent a new aircraft since the japanese had only partial technical data on the Me 163.

[vk3ukf]

Hi tty, thanks for the name on the Japanese rocket plane, it escaped me at the time, certainly an interesting bit of history. I would love to have seen to look on the pilots of those things when they took them up for the first time, or nearby witnesses of one leaping into the sky with a roar.